Cincinnati Enquirer photographer Craig Ruttle headed out toward Blue Ash about 5:30 a.m. to try to get photographs of the storm's devastation. Along the way, he found it was far worse than he could have imagined from the thunder he heard at his Wyoming home.

He was entering northbound I-71 from the Pfeiffer Road entrance ramp when he saw it:

To my astonishment, there's a pickup truck upside down on the concrete barrier (near the median). It was not even on the ground but up on the barrier suspended.

I thought, "Oh my God.' I pulled over. I came up to the truck. There was nobody around.

Mr. Ruttle leaned down to look inside for the driver. In the dark, he couldn't see anyone inside the truck.

When I looked up, I saw the silhouette of a person sitting on the barrier.

It was Donald Busch Jr. of Blanchester.

Mr. Busch told Mr. Ruttle that he was driving southbound in the storm when he saw blue flashes that he later figured were transformer explosions.

Before he knew what was happening, debris started hitting Mr. Busch's windshield and his truck was lifted by the storm.

Next thing he knew, he was in the truck, dangling upside down, strapped in by his seat belt, Mr. Ruttle said. He was stunned by the whole thing, but alive.

He said something like, "I was lucky. That other guy wasn't quite so lucky.'